Roughing It In The Bush; Or, Forest Life In Canada.
by MOODIE, Susanna [Strickland] [1803-1885]
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Toronto: Hunter, Rose & Co., 1871. First Canadian (First Illustrated) Edition of a classic of Canadian pioneer literature. Susanna Moodie, a sister of Catharine Parr Traill and Samuel Strickland, came to Upper Canada in 1832 with her husband, a lieutenant in the 21st Fusiliers. Originally settling on a farm near Cobourg, they later moved to the Backwoods area in Douro Township, and then to Belleville in 1840. Mrs. Moodie experienced considerable difficulty in adjusting to the hardships of pioneer life and her book, based on those experiences, was "prompted by the hope of deterring well-educated people, about to settle in this colony, from entering upon a life for which they were totally unfitted by their previous pursuits and habits." This first Canadian edition contains an initial chapter contrasting her current life in Canada with that which she experienced almost forty years earlier. Also added are five wood-engraved plates. Former owner Judge John Andrew Forin [1861-1957] remarks in a note that his father, John Forin, a prominent Belleville architect, was an intimate friend of the Moodie family. Gagnon I 2439. Lande 2005. Morgan p. 282. Sabin 50306 (incorrect collation). TPL 3290 (imperfect). Watters p. 551. Story p. 238. 8o. pp. 538, [6]ads. with half-title. 7 wood-engraved plates. original black, blind & gilt-stamped cloth (covers rubbed, extremities worn & frayed, inner front hinge artlessly reinforced, occasional light foxing). Inscribed to James Fuller with H.Cooper's best wishes, Parliamentary Printing Works, Toronto, 1873. bookplate & ownership entry of Judge J.A.Forin, with a few of his notes. engraved bookplate of Frank B.Pidgeon, Omemee by master Canadian bookplate designer Leslie Victor Smith dated 1946. elala5575
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Susanna Moodie was born Susanna Strickland in Bungay, Suffolk, England, in 1803. The sixth and final daughter of a retired dock manager, she grew up in a middle-class family that encouraged the children in reading and in writing. Her sisters Agnes and Elizabeth would write Lives of the Queens of England and other biographies of the aristocracy, her sister Catharine Parr (later Traill) would emigrate to Canada and write several natural history books, and her brother Samuel, another emigrant to Canada, would write of the settler's life. Susanna’s juvenilia include poetry and many fiction tales for young adults. In 1831 Susanna Strickland married John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie, a military officer who had returned to England from South Africa to explore publication projects and to find a wife. A year later, they emigrated to Upper Canada (Ontario). In Flora Lyndsay (1854), Susanna Moodie gives a fictionalized account of the family’s move to Canada, concluding with the journey up the Saint Lawrence River. For their first seventeen months in Canada, the Moodies lived on cleared farmland near Port Hope. In 1834 they moved to a bush farm in Douro Township north of Peterborough and near the homes of Samuel Strickland and Catharine Parr Traill. The farm was the Moodie home for five years, and Roughing It in the Bush (1852), describes their life in these two backwoods areas. From 1837 to 1839 Dunbar Moodie served in the Upper Canada militia, and in 1839 he was appointed Sheriff of Victoria District (later Hastings County). His family moved to Belleville in 1840, their home until his death in 1869. After her husband’s death Susanna Moodie spent her time with her various grown children and with her sister Catharine. Susanna Moodie died in Toronto, Ontario, in 1885. From the eBook edition.
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- Roughing It In The Bush; Or, Forest Life In Canada.
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